Ghost Blowing Lantern II

The fat man said: "Don't do this, you kid. This is a stupid thing that Alibaba did. You have to do it yourself, and don't try to use me as a spearman. Otherwise, if Big Jinya and the others find out about it after you go back, it will definitely happen again." I’m going to make up a new joke for the fat man. How difficult is it to cultivate this cold and aloof temperament and demeanor of my commander? How could I let you ruin it all?”

Finally, the fat man came up with an idea. If Professor Sun could go to the door without shame, he would return half of his notebook first. When Sun Jiuye heard that this condition was acceptable, he expressed his willingness to be "Ali" on the spot without even saying a word. Baba”.

I took out the pen and ink from the gold box, poured some water to grind the black ink, dipped the tip of the Guanshan Magic Pen until it was full, handed it to Sun Jiuye, and solemnly told him: "Try to draw as closely as possible. One thing, don’t forget to say Open Sesame after you finish painting.”

Professor Sun sighed: "Maybe I was too smart in the past, but now I am confused and use a brush to draw a door on the mountain to find a way... This... This is either the smartest move in my life, or the stupidest move in my life. , but no matter what, I'm just teaching you to force me to do this..." He complained naggingly, picked up the pen and walked to the cliff. He first drew a large square with the pen, and then added in the middle. There is a vertical road with two circles drawn on both sides as "door knockers". This mountain gate is finished. Although the painting is a bit sloppy, it can be regarded as a work of both form and spirit.

Everyone stood quietly in front of the wall, all staring at the painted door without blinking. This moment passed for an extremely long time, and I felt my heart was clenching. I kept repeating in my heart: "Open sesame..."

After a while, my eyes were sore. There was no movement on the painted gate on the mountain wall in the canyon. The ink marks gradually dried, and it was still just a painting.

We looked at the mountain and sighed. Although we knew that the mystery of the "Guanshan Magic Brush" might be unknown, which caused the door to be painted in vain, we could no longer think of any other way to open the painted door. I had no choice but to follow the previous agreement. Let the fat man return the first half of Professor Sun's work notes to him. The second half, which records his research on the "Guixu Trigram Mirror", will still remain in our hands for the time being.

The fat man said to Professor Sun: "Don't be so sad. Do you think we are a little unjust because we didn't return all the notes to you? But don't forget that it was Master Jiu who was the first to be unkind. There are ghosts who have died in every temple." , but you, Sun Laojiu, have always been doing deceitful things, and even if you want to complain, you may not be able to do it confidently, so after listening to the fat man’s good advice, you might as well stop thinking about it and quickly take this half of the notebook."

With a livid face, Professor Sun took the notebook and hid it in his arms, and said to the fat man: "Now that things have happened, do you think I still care about this notebook? I am worried about what we should do next?" After saying that, he turned to me and asked: "Hu Bayi, do you have any other ideas?"

At this time, I naturally couldn't show any embarrassment, so I could only pick out some heart-warming words and say: "We may not be able to fully understand the matter of Guanshan's magic strokes on the ground for a while, but there are no dead bodies at the bottom of this canyon, it is the South China Sea. The secret treasure Guixu Gua Mirror is useful. If the situation is not absolutely necessary, I originally didn’t want to use this killer trick, but this place is already at the end of the Coffin Gorge. How long will it take if we don’t use the ancient art of tomb robbing? "The art of tomb robbing, In fact, it is not only the secret technique of Feng Shui that observes the mountain shape and terrain, but also "observes mud marks, soil quality, water flow, and grass color. There are also techniques of smelling soil, listening to the earth, and asking the sky to make armor. If you use this method, you will not lose anything." one."

I immediately found a flat stone, took out the "Bronze Gua Mirror" and the "Fish and Dragon Gua Talisman", and prepared to use the "Question" tactic among the four tomb robbing techniques.

Professor Sun has been obsessed with this extremely mysterious "Guixu Mirror" for a long time, but he just didn't know how to use the "candle mirror divination" method, and he didn't trust my method, so he came closer and asked endless questions.

Shirley Yang is also very interested in this. After all, the legend of "interrogating the tomb" has been lost for thousands of years. Now few people can tell the story of it, including Chen Xiazi, the leader of the Xiling bandits, and the mountain mover. The Taoist Partridge Whistle also has no understanding of this.

I had to give some simple explanations to Professor Sun and Shirley Yang. Among the methods of "touching the gold captain" during the Han and Tang Dynasties, there was the act of asking the sky and making divination, which is the so-called "asking the tomb" technique. According to the use Depending on the divination utensils used in witchcraft, there have been two methods of this technique since ancient times, one is "divination by candlelight in mirror" and the other is "divination by candlelight in mirror".

The core element of "The Secret Technique of Touching Gold" is "Yi", and the core of "Yi" is "the correspondence between heaven and man, endless life and death". If it is replaced with a modern concept, it can be understood as something between "mind" and "things" "", "mind" and "things" should be one. "Heart" is human beings, and "things" are heaven. Mind and things are inherently one, and they cannot be purely idealistic or completely materialistic.

The element that connects spirit and matter is the "qi" mentioned in Feng Shui. In a good place full of vitality, you can use the secret weapon of Feng Shui to spy on this invisible and qualityless "qi".

Most of the artifacts that can be used as Feng Shui secret artifacts are ancient bronze artifacts, or tortoise shells and keels that have been buried in Feng Shui treasure caves for many years. Because these artifacts cannot be used repeatedly, after the Tang and Song Dynasties, almost no tomb robbers used the method of "interrogating tombs for fortune telling". "The ancient method of fighting upside down has been eliminated, which is the main reason why this technique has been lost.

Professor Sun claimed that he had seen it more than once in some historical materials. The "Question" formula should be real and not an idealistic legend. However, the "Guixu Trigram Mirror" is no better than an ordinary bronze tripod. The hexagram symbols in the ancient mirror are all arranged according to the hexagram numbers of the Zhou Dynasty. If you don’t understand the ancient hexagram diagrams and hexagram images, who will know how to use them?

I didn't answer immediately. I held the two bronze talismans of fish and dragon in my hands and carefully thought about Zhang Yingchuan's instructions. The infinitely mysterious "Sixteen-Character Ancient Zhou Tian Gua" includes "hexagram images, hexagram words, and hexagram numbers." "Three items, their relationship is - deducing the "hexagram image" from the "hexagram number", and then interpreting the "hexagram image" from the "hexagram word". These three complement each other and are indispensable. It is difficult to say which one is important and which is secondary.

The most comprehensive and detailed record of these three items should be the "Complete Picture of the Sixteen Hexagrams of the Zhou Dynasty". However, there are no unearthed ancient artifacts left in the world. Perhaps there is still a picture of the Zhou Dynasty hidden in the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb". Tian Gua Diagram, that’s why Professor Sun was willing to leave his family and career and travel thousands of miles to come here with us for adventure.

I used to know almost nothing about the real "Complete Diagram of Zhou Tian Sixteen Hexagrams", but when I was in Nanhai, I heard Longhu Guchai recite the complete Zhou Tian Hexagrams, and I was lucky enough to meet Zhang Ying. Chuan, with his help, found out the method of using the "Guixu Ancient Mirror" through repeated deductions of "Zhou Tian Gua Number" and "Bronze Gua Mirror and Bronze Gua Talisman".

I told Professor Sun and Shirley Yang: "There are sixteen Zhoutian hexagrams, which are represented by different specific symbols in different deductions. Fish, dragons, humans, and ghosts represent a small Zhoutian cycle. It is specially used to examine the location and space of the ancient tomb ruins."

Professor Sun shook his head repeatedly: "The fallacy is simply ridiculous. If you say that these four bronze hexagrams are symbols of life forms or creatures, it is somewhat credible, but how can they represent Orientation and space? The difference is too outrageous. Your senior brother Zhang is probably a charlatan, and he is obviously talking nonsense. Bronze mirrors and bronze talismans are peerless secret treasures. You must not use them indiscriminately."

Her previous experience in the Kunlun Mountains made Shirley Yang more convinced of my Yijing theory, but she also found it difficult to understand and said: "I don't understand the changes in the Yijing, but you said fish, dragon, The four ancient bronze talismans of humans and ghosts can be used to determine the spatial orientation of ancient tombs. Is there any basis for this?"

I said to everyone: "Although Professor Sun has been studying the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book for many years, he is really stubborn and has an unopened mind. He can only imagine that the four symbols of fish, dragon, human and ghost are the life between heaven and earth." Form, but I can’t imagine the deeper level. The existence of heaven and earth space is precisely for life. This is the concept of the holographic universe of the unity of heaven and man. In fact, the secret lies in the bronze hexagram without eyes. "

Professor Sun said seriously: "Although my research results have not been taken seriously, after all, I have made a lot of research results. The results are always objective and no one can erase them. As for whether I have an unopened brain, it is not yours." Young people have the final say. Can you please tell me how this eyeless ancient talisman has any connection with space and orientation? I’ll start with my ugly words. Even though you fished the Guixu Ancient Mirror back from the bottom of the sea, I will never listen to you. Just a few nonsense words and I will let you destroy this rare treasure at will."

I snorted disdainfully and said to Professor Sun: "If I really want to destroy this ancient bronze mirror, you really can't stop me. But I always convince people with reason, so I will give it to you today." Make up a lesson, quickly take a pen and record it carefully, don’t become short-sighted and unable to see the distance of the world due to being at the height of the temple.”

I pointed to the Zhou Tian Bronze Coat on the back of the "Guixu Gua Mirror" and showed it to Professor Sun. There is a symbol on each copper cone, and the bronze hexagram talisman must be embedded in the corresponding position. The copper talisman has no eyes, but in fact it does not. It has no eyes, but represents the spatial limitations of life. To be precise, it should be "invisible".

The ancient Chinese's understanding of space was formed thousands of years ago, and is very close to the modern scientific concept. It can also be said that modern science has been developed for thousands of years, but the concept of the universe has never been very big. Progress.

The four bronze symbols are "fish, dragon, human, and ghost". In ancient traditional concepts, fish cannot see water and people cannot see wind. "Wind" should be what we call air now. People live in the atmosphere. It's the same as fish living in water. They live in a substance that they can't see.

"Ghosts" cannot see the land. In the ancient people's concept, ghosts have always lived underground. Ghosts in the ground are just like people in the wind or fish in the water. Of course, "ghosts" and "dragons" both It's just a concept in traditional Chinese culture.

When Professor Sun heard this, he felt a sense of enlightenment and patted the top of his head continuously: "That's right...people can't see the wind, ghosts can't see the ground, and fish can't see the water. Why didn't I think of it at the beginning, then...what about the dragon? It is an illusory concept just like ghosts. What can dragons not see? Say it quickly..."

I saw that Professor Sun was very anxious, and he seemed to be really angry, and there was a possibility of convulsions when he was excited, so I stopped talking to him and told him bluntly: "In the ancient people's concept, the dragon is a totem." The spirit of all things in it, but the dragon itself cannot see any matter at all. The dragon can only see living things, that is, those beings with souls. The rest, whether it is wind, water or earth, the dragon cannot see. This is the ancient It is mentioned repeatedly in the novel - the dragon cannot see everything."

Therefore, the four symbols of "fish, dragon, human, and ghost" are actually a recurring spatial summary. According to the corresponding marks of "people cannot see the wind, ghosts cannot see the ground, fish cannot see water, and dragons cannot see everything", the hexagram symbols are incorporated into the ancient mirror. On the back of the copper candle, you can light a candle refined from Nanhai Mermaid ointment to determine the location of the ancient tomb.

Shirley Yang said: "It's easy to handle if you know the principle, but we only have two of the four bronze talismans in our hands. Two of the four are missing, but what should we do?"

I sucked the tooth flowers, and the bronze hexagram talisman was incomplete. It was indeed extremely difficult. Back then, the "moving mountains and unloading mountains" teamed up to rob the Pingshan ancient tomb in western Hunan and unearthed two talismans: "Bronze Man and Bronze Ghost", but now To this day, the two ancient talismans and the alchemy furnace in the Pingshan Alchemy Palace have been included in the treasure house of the Hunan Museum. It is difficult for us to even see the real ones, let alone use them to hunt for dragons and fight against each other.

Fortunately, among the two bronze talismans in my hand, there is a "bronze dragon talisman", which accounts for the total talisman, and a "bronze fish talisman" to complement it. At least half of the hexagrams can be deduced in the ancient mirror, maybe not It's too precise, but as long as there is a vague hint, I should be satisfied. Then again, even if there are really four bronze talismans that can reflect the Zhoutian hexagram in the mirror, I don't know the hexagram, but it is probably the image. There is no solution, it is not as easy to interpret as half of the acquired hexagrams.

After Professor Sun understood my explanation, he felt free to let me do it. I placed the hexagram talisman on the back of the "Guixu Ancient Mirror" and asked everyone to gather in a circle and light a "Mackerel Candle". The bronze talisman The hole in the eye happens to be a hexagram eye, through which the candlelight can leak onto the hexagram chart on the back of the mirror.

At this time, we also need to refer to the heavenly stems, earthly branches, Jiazi time, etc., to turn the movable circle of the machine on the back of the ancient mirror. Finally, the candle shadows illuminated by the copper dragon and the copper fish are cast on the two ancient figures respectively. Among them, the little sea air left in the bronze mirror also dispersed some at this time.

Sun Jiuye has studied the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book for many years, and has long been familiar with the most basic river diagrams and hexagrams. When he saw the hexagrams appearing, he kept marveling and said happily: "This is Kun, and the other one is... Gen, both are What does it mean? Where is the ancient tomb in Dixian Village?"

I stared at the hexagram on the back of the Guixu ancient mirror and said to everyone: "This hexagram means that Gen is in Kun, Kun is the ground, Gen is the mountain, there is a mountain in the ground, and the mountain is also a mausoleum. I see Dixian Village The ancient tomb must be inside this mountain."

After everyone heard what I said, they all looked up at the mountains in front of them again. The mountains in the "Coffin Gorge" were really too high and steep, and were wrapped in clouds and mist. The method of "seeing the situation, dividing the gold and fixing the acupoints, and penetrating directly into the middle palace" is just based on the sentence "there are mountains in the ground". For the ancient tombs underground, the scope is still too broad.

I also felt quite embarrassed. I suddenly felt helpless. Could I only move forward one meter at a time? If we do that, I'm afraid there won't be any results in even a year and a half, and what we lack most now is time, but every disadvantage has its advantages. What's more gratifying is that the road in the past was not in vain. Our team The expedition team is indeed getting closer to the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb".

But we don’t know the scale and layout of the "Dixian Village Ancient Tomb" at all. If we want to dig a hole and burrow into the ground, it will be harder than climbing to the sky. It’s a pity that the weather is not right at this moment, otherwise there will be a thunderstorm at this time. You can also learn the method of "listening to the sound to identify acupuncture points". Use a bamboo tube to listen to the ground. There is neither wind, rain nor thunder, and I can only worry in vain without chanting the mantra.

I suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a method of "calling for wind and rain" in the art of moving mountains and reclamation. The mountains here were gathered together, and the clouds and mist gathered in the deep valleys. There were just signs of thunderstorms, but the magic of the "mountain-moving Taoist" was too much. Not every item of mystery can be easily understood by us. According to records, if you want to pray for a severe thunderstorm, you need at least one "male rat egg", which is roughly a white oval shape, two circles smaller than a quail egg, and looks like The stone is not stone, it looks like bone but not bone. Soak it in a cup of water. However, I have never heard of "male rat eggs". I know the male and female yin and yang. I speculate that they may be male rat eggs, but what about male rats? Will it lay eggs? And even a female mouse shouldn't lay eggs. I was full of doubts, so I asked Shirley Yang. Could such a simple method make God thunder and rain? God has always had a bad temper and is moody. Can he be so obedient and do whatever he is told?

Shirley Yang has a very good memory and almost has a photographic memory. She said that the specific saying in "Mountain Moving Technique" should be - when yin and yang are combined, there will be rain. This turned out to be the "Xiongnu method". During the Han Dynasty, it was only used in witchcraft activities on the grassland and desert. Soak special stones in a basin of clean water, wash them repeatedly, and secretly hold the spell for a long time. It will rain and the stones will fall. It is called "鲊达". The largest one is the size of an egg, and the smallest one is like a bean. These stones are all produced in the belly of animals on the ground. Among them, the two treasures of ox and horse are the most wonderful and rare. Later, this technique was spread to the hands of Taoist monks who moved mountains. , although I don’t know the incantation, soaking the stone with water in this way can also cause rain.

I basically understand more than half of it. This thing is similar to the "inner elixir" of ancient corpses we are looking for. It's just that the treasure in the belly of the beast also belongs to the "inner elixir". In fact, it is all inner elixir. A kind of stone, it is obtained by birds and animals absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon over time. The essence of the sun and the moon is also the yin and yang between heaven and earth. It is soaked and mixed with clear water. It is exactly what the scriptures say: "Yin and yang combine and then there is rain." ”, causing clouds and rain to gather nearby, and thunder and lightning to surge.

Shirley Yang said that although all the stones in the belly of animals are collectively called "inner elixirs" in the eyes of the ancients, each of them has its own name. The so-called "male rat eggs" are the inner elixirs of rats. "The most miraculous effect in causing thunderstorms in the mountains can be said to have been tried hundreds of times.

The wonders of nature are difficult to predict with common sense. For example, all the stones produced by male rats have naturally occurring runes on them. This is clearly recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and is not just a rumor spread. Word. Another example is that centenarian hedgehogs will have mirror marks on their armpits, and stones on pigs and sheep will have seal marks, and each has its own special effect. Cows have yellow in their gallbladders, dogs have ink in their kidneys, and cows have stones called bezoar. They are born in the gallbladder; dog stones are born in the kidneys and are called "dog ink". In addition, the horse's treasure, the camel's yellow, the deer's horn jade, and the horns reaching the sky are all such things, with different effects and functions, and they are too numerous to mention.

Like Corpse Pills, they are rare things that can be encountered but cannot be found. Where can I find these things now? Besides, there are many things left by ancient people that modern people cannot understand, so even if they are found, they may not be effective. Shirley Yang advised me not to have any wild ideas now. I have no clue now, and it’s easy to get angry in a hurry. There is nothing to be done about it. Everyone is a little tired after arriving here. They might as well take a rest on the spot before reasoning.

When I saw that everyone had indeed not eaten all day long, and their internal organs had been empty for a long time, I felt so hungry that my heart was pressed against my mouth, and I couldn't bear it any longer. I also looked at the silence of the empty mountains in the valley, There won't be any ferocious beasts around, so we have to decide to rest in place for the night and then make plans again.

Everyone was busy laying sleeping bags on the nearby mountain roots. They didn't even bother to light the campfire. They ate some compressed biscuits and cans. I was so preoccupied that I discussed the action plan for tomorrow with Shirley Yang and didn't bother to eat. How many things are there, let the other four people rest first, and I will keep vigil first. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)